This is a blog by a former CEO of a large Boston hospital to share thoughts about hospitals, medicine, and health care issues.

Monday, March 29, 2010

Berwick --> CMS

The New York Timesreports that President Obama will name Don Berwick, CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, to be head of the Medicare agency, CMS. Don is an extraordinary leader in the quality and safety movement, and his appointment would send a strong signal as to the direction of US health care policy.